Alaskan Wilderness

What a day!! We have reached Skagway - a village of 800 citizens which swells to 1200 in the season and has 2,500 tourists a day from the cruise ships. However when we first set foot on land it was so early we could Lake photos of this frontier town. We had two guide, called appropriately Cowboy and Don, (ours was a small group of 13), who took us to the station to catch the White Pass and Yukon Railway which goes up the mountains to Frasier a settlement of 20 people up the mountains for 3000 feet. Fantastic views as we climbed up the sides of mountains, hung over raging gorges, and over wooden trestle bridges, through tunnels all built with great hardship, misery and death of both man and horse in 1898 to serve the Klondike goldrush. After this magnificent ride, Cowboy and Don took us to the kayak spot, and we had a magical hour's kayaking on Lake Bernard, a glacial lake 3000' up. The sun shone, the water was dark and mysterious and still, reflections were stunning, a magic moment on both our lives and one not to be forgotten - we felt like White Cloud and Running Feather. After lunch we went on a supposed Wildlife Tour - the only disappointment in our whole holiday - so I won't go into that. Well, sadly, that's it for this holiday of a lifetime. Just resting on board and preparing to come home.
This will be our last blog as we now have two days cruising before we catch the plane home - boo hoo!!!!